Extra Reading

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  • Roald Dahl's life and influence in storys. This is an article wirtten in 1994 which talks about the Roald dahl's stories and the way they are written. It also talks about his life and how it had influenced in his writtings.

  • Boy Going Solo This is an essay which talks about the connection between Roald Dahl's life and the stories he had written during his life.

  • Boekverslag Roald Dahl . This is an article about Genesis and Catastrophe in itself and also has an analisis about the story.

  • The Uses of Enchantment. This is an article of the new york times which gives an opinion about Roald Dahl's style in his stories and all the topics they have.







  • Adolf Hitler . This link talks about Hitler´s childhood and about his family.

  • A fine Son. This link talks about the story "A fine son" which is the same story of "Genesis and catastrophe"


  • Roald Dahl's critics In this like I've found comments, relflexions and critics about Roald Dalhl's work.

  • Roald Dahl's poems This page is about the poetic facet of Roald Dalh, and it includes all his poems.



  • Klara Hitler This links talks about Klara Pölzl's life. Also talks about her children: who died (and why) and who lived.

  • Genesis and Catastrophe's essay This is the first part of an essay about the story. It says when is the story situated and gives you a look at the characters.


  • Tales of the Unexpected This is a movie about genesis and catastrophe, in that link you can find some reviews of the movie and some comentaries.

  • Short summary and other things like place, time and structure of the story here.

  • This isn´t a link but I saw in a lot of places that "Genesis and catastrophe" could be related whit Adolf Hitler, like the introduction, maybe this is very clear in the story but i didn´t notice so im putting this here. Here is a video I found, it isn´s serious but this video will tell you what i´m talking about: